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Photograph of Houser-Conklin House
Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ. M.D, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Houser-Conklin House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1891.

From the record

“Houser-Conklin House is a historic home located in Monsey in Rockland County, New York. It was originally built c. 1775 as a gable roofed sandstone dwelling, and subsequently raised to 2-stories with a frame addition dating to c. 1890-1900.”

Wikipedia article Houser-Conklin House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Rockland County · listed in 2010 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Houser--Conklin House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 246 Rte 306, Monsey, 10977
  • When was it listed? October 2010
  • Category. building
  • Town. Ramapo town
  • Architectural style. American colonial architecture
  • National Register reference number. 10000808 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2,120 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2,120 fires within 5 miles of Houser-Conklin House between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,571 acres in total. 94 started naturally. 171 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1214
Smoking356
Arson/incendiarism171
Recreation and ceremony106
Natural94
Equipment and vehicle use74
Debris and open burning52
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Power generation/transmission/distribution16
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2015Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
9 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
9 September 2001Smokingunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
8 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.3 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
8 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A

Every fire recorded in Rockland County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Houser-Conklin House: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, Zirconium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ladentown Copper DepositCopper, ZirconiumOccurrence
Suffern QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mount Ivy Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Mount Ivy Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Rockland County

Storms near this property

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monsey, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2021LightningMonsey$6,000House struck by lightning with smoke coming from the electric panel with fire department dispatched.
July 2025Flash FloodMonsey-Monsey Fire Department and Stony Point Dive team requested for a car stuck in flooding with an 82 year old trapped.
September 2021Flash FloodMonsey-Elaine Place in Monsey was closed due to flooding.
August 2003Flash FloodMonsey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockland County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Brick Church Complex0.3 miles1984
North Main Street School1.5 miles2008
US Post Office-Spring Valley1.9 miles1989
English Church and Schoolhouse2.0 miles1977
St. Paul's Episcopal Church2.0 miles2008
Gurnee-Sherwood House2.3 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10000808 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Rockland CountyAll 93 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.